Guatemala’s Independence Day Photo Gallery

Have a happy Guatemalan Independence Day weekend everyone. Enjoy the multimedia material I have compiled for you!

Once again, we have to thank Nelo Mijangos for sharing his photos with us.

Our regular contributor and friend Guy Howard shares his gallery of civic events for September 15 in Antigua Guatemala.

Free into the wind, your beautiful flag!

Guatemala’s National Anthem in English

Happy Guatemala, may your altar
Never be trampled by the tormentor
Nor should slaves lick the yoke
Nor should tyrants spit in your face
If tomorrow your sacred soil
Is threatened by foreign invasion
Free into the wind, your beautiful flag
To victory or death it will call
CHORUS
Free into the wind, your beautiful flag
To victory or death it will call
Since your people, with fiery soul
Will die before becoming slaves
From your old and hard chains
You forged, with an ire-driven hand,
The plow that fertilizes the soil
And the sword that saves honor.
Our fathers fought one day,
Lit up in patriotic burning
And they were able, without bloody clash,
To place you on a throne of love.
And they were able, without bloody clash,
To place you on a throne of love,
That our Nation, in energetic assent,
Gave life to the ideal redeemer.
Your emblem shows a piece of the sky
In which a cloud gets its whiteness
Wretched is he who dares in madness
stain your colors
Well, your brave and proud sons
who admire the peace within
will never avoid the rough battles
if they are to defend their land and their home.
CHORUS
They will never avoid the rough battles
if they are to defend their land and their home
that honor is the idea that reigns their souls
and the altar of the mother country their altar
Lying in the magnificent Ande
with two oceans at hearing distance
under the wing of seeds and gold
you become entranced from the beautiful quetzal
Native bird that lives in your seal
protector that protects your soil
hopefully he will fly high
more than the condor and the royal eagle!
CHORUS
Hopefully he will fly high
more than the condor and the royal eagle
and in his wings, raise up to the sky:
Guatemala, your immortal name!

Gracias a Nelo, y a Guy, para imagenes y comentarios siempre excelentes ! Up here in the corner pocket, I wore my “Team Guatemala” jersey on the 15th…and was amazed at how many guatemaltecos I encountered. Maybe I should not be so surprised. Thanks, Rudy, for your fantastic posts, and Feliz Independencia, Guatemala!

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Rudy, you are still a young man and may yet be the Mayor of Antigua (and if not, then maybe Caballero or Hidalgo). You have been the best Ambassador Antigua could wish for; always putting the best face of our favourite city forward; able to depict reality without being disloyal to her shortcomings and always exhibiting the beauty of LAG with love, friendly dialogue and photographic excellence! Long live the brand of La Antigua Guatemala and your participation in it! —El Canche

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